Zhejiang Huace Film & TV Q1 performance rebounds, television drama market warms up | Interpretations
① Zhejiang Huace Film & TV's profits in 2024 are expected to decline by double digits, while Q1 2025 profits will achieve a triple-digit year-on-year growth; ② Zhejiang Huace Film & TV stated that the increase in Q1 revenue is mainly due to the company's current period television series sales scale increasing compared to the same period last year; ③ The company is developing a large model for the vertical field of film and television, with the 'National Color' large model being filed in January 2025.
The signal for price increase in cloud-based services has appeared, signaling the start of an upward cycle in computing power.
With the gradual release of deep thinking models such as Deepseek R1 and openAI o1/o3, the demand for high-performance computing on the inference side is rapidly being unleashed, leading to a rapid expansion of Capex by major companies like Alibaba and Tencent, with a quarterly capital expenditure increase of over 250% in Q4 2024, marking the formal entry of the cloud upstream into a new upward cycle.
Express News | DeepSeek-R2 will be released on March 17, and there has been no official response yet.
Well-known manufacturers are raising prices. Institutions are Bullish on the recovery of the storage Industry cycle.
① Recently, SanDisk, a globally renowned Memory Chip manufacturer, sent a price increase notice to its customers, stating that it will raise prices for its products starting April 1, with an overall increase of more than 10%. ② A Research Report from CITIC SEC pointed out that as the impact of original manufacturers' production control becomes evident and industry inventory gradually gets digested, the demand driven by AI is expected to increase, and mainstream NAND Flash prices are likely to rise in the second quarter of 2025.
Express News | Is it the first time considering raising external funds? DeepSeek representatives refute the rumors: all financing news is false.
Significant progress in domestic models is expected to bring broader commercialization opportunities for AI applications.
① In recent years, significant progress has been made in domestic models. The release of DeepSeek-R1 aligns in performance with OpenAI-o1's official version, but at a lower cost, which is expected to bring about broader application implementation and commercialization opportunities downstream. ② Western Securities believes that the emergence of interactive multimodal large models is expected to drive a transformation in human-computer interaction.